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Audio Help [duhf] Pronunciation Key –noun Slang.
| the buttocks or rump: If you don't like the way things are, get off your duff and do something about it! |
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| a stiff flour pudding, boiled or steamed and often flavored with currants, citron, and spices. |
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Audio Help [duhf] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object) Slang.
| 1. | to give a deliberately deceptive appearance to; misrepresent; fake. |
| 2. | British. (in golf) to misplay (a golf ball), esp. to misjudge one's swing so that the club strikes the ground behind the ball before hitting it. |
| 3. | Australian.
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| 4. | to cheat someone. |
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| 1. | organic matter in various stages of decomposition on the floor of the forest. |
| 2. | fine, dry coal, esp. anthracite. |
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n. A stiff flour pudding boiled in a cloth bag or steamed. [Dialectal variation of dough.] |
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n.
[Origin unknown.] |
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n. Slang The buttocks. [Origin unknown.] |
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duff
"buttocks, rump," 1830s, of unknown origin.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| duff | |
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| a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron |
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Duff, TN Zip code(s): 37729
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Duff
Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. Cf. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.]1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Duff
Duff\ (d[u^]f), n. [From OE. dagh. [root]67. See Dough.]1. Dough or paste. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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